COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Crane Shot
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Rear window is hitchcock"s most self reflective movie. Begins with a crane shot from a position that no person could occupy. Pans around lb jeffries room to give the audience info about him. Jeff is a photographer of extraordinary events (car crashes, bomb tests, etc) Diegetic or live sound is used from jeffries perspective to capture the distance. Trapped in his plaster caccoon, he is transformed in the end. Musician play piano in the window. The couple with the dog toto dog gets killed by mr. thorwald. Miss lonely heart lady that is alone. Thorwalds (guy is the criminal, his wife is sick in bed) Stella nurse lady (jeff"s friend) that takes care of him. Jeff wants a woman who is willing to go anywhere, and do anything. Later lisa (his girlfriend) becomes this woman. She enters from a dream, her whole face filling the screen in slow motion, and wakes jeff with a.
